Paul, which printer are you using? Does it actually support the
functionality you are requesting? The "Print Self Test Page" is intended
for printers which have a built in self test page (usually to discover
clogged nozzles) and the driver is supposed to send a special code
sequence to the printer
Till, The printer is a kodak aio hero 9.1
and the driver is my c2espC driver, with command filter command2esp.
This all used to work, for both print self test and clean heads.
But recently I noticed that it no longer worked.
However, if I make a text command file called "selftest" containing
More investigation:
Using ubuntu live DVDs : commands in system-config-printer of ubuntu 13.10 work
OK. In ubuntu 14.10 they do not work.
I uninstalled system-config-printer 1.5.6 from my xubuntu 15.04, then installed
version 1.3.8 The commands work OK.
So some change between system-config prin
Yes it seems to be a buffering problem
in file printerproperties.py
I changed the line
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='wt') as tmpfile:
to
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='wt',buffering=1) as tmpfile:
and now the command file sending works for me.
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xubuntu 15.04 64 bit
system-config-printer 1.5.6
when I click the button "Print self test page", I expect the printer to
produce a self test page
instead I get error "client-error-bad-request" and no self test page.
the cups error log has the entry
Print-Jo
Paul, thank you very much for finding the fix. I will apply it soon so
that it will be available in Wily.
** Changed in: system-config-printer (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Triaged
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Uploaded system-config-printer 1.5.7+20150819-0ubuntu3 with the fix.
Paul, thank you very much for the bug report and the patch.
** Changed in: system-config-printer (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Fix Committed
** Changed in: system-config-printer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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This bug was fixed in the package system-config-printer -
1.5.7+20150819-0ubuntu3
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* debian/patches/37_command-file-buffering.patch: Fixed buffering
problem which prevented command jobs (head cleaning, nozzl
Till,
system-config-printer version 1.3.8 works
version 1.5.6 does not work.
My impression is that the command file generated in printerproperties.py
using
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='wt') as tmpfile:
tmpfile.write ("#CUPS-COMMAND\n%s\n" % command)
has a size of